Dictionary of Sydney

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Furniture manufacturer, interior design company and furnishing retailer which traded opposite the Town Hall for over 70 years.

Milestone
Opened
1872
Closed
1973
Merged into
1973
Name
Alternate
B Bebarfald & Co
Position
1930
Property
Occupied
1894 - 1965
Owned by
1968 - 1973
Type

Bebarfald's

,
2011

Once a giant in furniture retailing, with a full scale house on display on the second floor of its city building, Bebarfald's was a complete home furnishing and decoration store. Like others, its business declined once suburban shopping centres took off after the 1950s.